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Dan´s Data has posted a review on the ASUS V7100/T GeForce2 MX graphics card. Here is a clip:



The GeForce2 MX is rated at less than half of the fill rate of the GeForce2 GTS. Fill rate, measured in megapixels per second, tells you how fast a graphics card can paint the screen. The higher your resolution, the more pixels you need to paint per frame, and the fewer frames per second you can possibly draw from a given fill rate.

The GTS is rated at 800 megapixels per second; the MX manages only 350. This difference is largely down to the much slower, but also much cheaper, RAM on the MX boards; it´s 166MHz plain Single Data Rate SDRAM. The GTS´s memory runs at the same speed, but it´s Dual Data Rate, processing two transactions per clock tick, so its actual speed is twice as high.
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